Method and system for controlled infusion of therapeutic substances

摘要

An infusion device 10 includes a pump 12 that delivers an infusate to a human or animal subject and a controller 14 programmed to: (i) control a delivery of the infusate in accordance with an infusion profile stored in a storage medium and (ii) monitor whether the patient is suffering an adverse reaction, the adverse reaction stored in a substance reference library in the storage medium in association with the infusate, the infusion profile comprising: a total volume or total amount of infusate to be infused; at least three infusion steps, each infusion step having an infusion rate and a duration, wherein the total volume or amount of infusate is infused over the at least three infusion steps; and a constant rate of change between the infusion rate between each of the infusion steps, wherein the constant rate of change has a slope between zero and ninety degrees relative to a horizontal time axis. - - -3 Fig t